Dr. Danielle Koupf                           

Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing

Contact

Office: Tribble C104

Phone: 336-758-4644

Email: koupfdr@wfu.edu

Website: dkoupf.weebly.com

Degrees

PhD, English, University of Pittsburgh

AB, English, Lafayette College

Areas of Interest

Composition theory and pedagogy

Histories of composition 

Textual reuse

Authorship and invention

Handcrafted rhetorics

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

WRI 111: Truth and Fiction

WRI 111: Originality and Invention

WRI 111: Rewriting

WRI 111: Advice, Please?: Using Rhetoric to Navigate Advice Genres

WRI 212: Literary Nonfiction: The Art of the Essay

WRI 340: Flow

WRI 340: Handcrafted Rhetorics

WRI 350: Capstone for the Interdisciplinary Writing Minor

Selected Publications

“A Pedagogy of Amplification.” Composition Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 84-102.

“Factual Dispute: Teaching Rhetoric and Complicating Fact-Checking with The Lifespan of a Fact.” Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News, edited by Ellen Carillo and Alice Horning, Peter Lang Publishing, 2020, pp. 81-94.

“Scrap Writing in the Digital Age: The Inventive Potential of Texts on the Loose.” enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture, Feb. 2019. 

“Proliferating Textual Possibilities: Toward Pedagogies of Critical-Creative Tinkering.” Composition Forum, vol. 35, Spring 2017.

“Review of MW10: Actually Teaching Style: Upping the Ante on Academic Writing.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 20, no. 2, Spring 2016. 

“David Shields’s Reality Hunger and the Value of Textual Recycling.” Literature, Rhetoric, and Values: Selected Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011, edited by Shelley Hulan, Murray MacArthur, and Randy Allen Harris, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 29-44.